Foreign News: Dramatis Personae

The subordinate personnel of Cordell Hull's delegation was still secret
early this week. In Washington, his principal advisers on Russian and
Mid-Eastern affairs are relatively unknown, hardworking,
well-informed, humanly prejudiced.

Hull's personal adviser is also his croquet partner, James Clement Dunn.
Dapper, slick-haired, 53-year-old "Jimmy" Dunn married into the Armour
packing family, gives lavish receptions, likes European nobility, wears
the right clothes. In the past he supported the Franco regime, backed
Marshal Henri Pétain helped Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton. On his record,
he has been anti-Soviet.